Former leading New Zealand publisher and bookseller, and widely experienced judge of both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, talks about what he is currently reading, what impresses him and what doesn't, along with chat about the international English language book scene, and links to sites of interest to booklovers.

Tom Keneally (left, Courier Mail), was awarded the Order of Australia in 1983 for his services to that country's literature. He has been short-listed for the Booker Prize four times, and won the 1982 Booker Prize with Schindler's Ark. His recent book, Three Famines: Starvation and Politics (Knopf), looks at Ireland, Bengal and Ethiopia, and the second volume of his history of Australia, Eureka and the Diggers (Allen & Unwin, ISBN: 9781742374482), will be published at the end of this month.

9:05 Costas Panayotakis

Costas Panayotakis is associate professor of sociology at the New York City College of Technology and author of the forthcoming book, Remaking Scarcity: From Capitalist Inefficiency to Economic Democracy (Pluto Press, ISBN: 9780745330990).

Professor Tony Parker is Associate Pro Vice Chancellor of the College of Creative Arts at Massey University in Wellington and president of the Designers Institute of New Zealand. He is one of New Zealand's top industrial designers, and convened the product judges at this year's Best Design Awards (7 October). Among other awards, Tony won the Concept/Experimental Category at the 2005 Design Awards for the Hulme supercar.

Kate De Goldi is the author of a number of books, including The 10pm Question which has won the 2011 Corine International Book Prize Young Readers Award (a German prize for excellent literary achievements and their recognition by the public). Kate has just returned from the UK, where she has been speaking at the Edinburgh Festival and researching for a book on children's literature.

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Saturday Morning repeats:

On Saturday 8 October August 2011 during Great Encounters between 6:06pm and 7:00pm on Radio New Zealand National, you can hear a repeat broadcast of Kim Hill's interview from 1 October with Duncan Watts, author of Everything is Obvious.

Preview: Saturday 15 October

Kim Hill's guests will include mountaineer Pat Deavoll, conceptual artist Chris Guise, and Kate Camp at the Frankfurt Book Fair.